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April 24th, 1951, was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their lives to begin. Soon, Chinese communist troops in their thousands, swarmed around them, plunging straight towards the Korean capital, Seoul. These Canadians were all that blocked the way. This is the story of the first battle by Canada's first soldiers in the Korean War: the 2nd Battalion of Princess...
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When the communist-backed army from North Korea invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. Wealthy Jisoo has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi - and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects...
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It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. In this extensive history, preeminent military historian Max Hastings takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two hundred vets-including the Chinese-Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through...
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On September 27th, 1950, the USS Hoquiam PF-5 was re-commissioned into the US Naval Service as a combatant. This ship was originally commissioned at Mare Island Naval shipyard in 1944, to serve as an escort vessel, manned by the USCG in the North Pacific. In early 1945, during Operation Hula, she and 27 other Patrol Frigates were transferred to the Soviet Navy under Lend-Lease. After long bickering and arguments, the USSR returned 27 of the 28 Patrol...
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HEARTS OF IRON is the epic true story of a little-known but significant part of the Korean War, told by the brave men of the Flame Platoon, First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division. This book shares the honest, personal accounts of combat, fear, death, and survival of these comrades of the Forgotten War, most of whom were not even trained to be Flame Tankers yet fought with weapons possessing some of the most lethal fire ability of any rolling...
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Korea, December 1950. The temperature has plunged to 20-degrees below zero. Cold enough to crack rocket-launcher ammo wide open. But not cold enough to stop a massive Communist assault against U.S. forces. As the 8th Army retreats, the Marines dig in at Chosin Reservoir and are quickly cut off and surrounded. This is the riveting account of what happened next. The brilliant Marine attack that was to become a classic in military operations. The personal...
11) Recalled to Duty
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Lee Harrison Stewart, a Seaman Apprentice, was stationed at a backwater naval station in Astoria Oregon, working in the Communications Center. He had just re-enlisted for six years to attend the Navy's Electronics school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. There was a massive screw-up with a machine card's punched hole indicated he had just graduated, awaiting assignment. The Communications Officer was very upset at Stewart believing he was lying...
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The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12,1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from most...
14) You Tremble Body
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Commissioned in the US Infantry after two years Royal Canadian Army and a year training in the US Army Air Force, ending in Czechoslovakia facing Ruskies and Dud's rifle platoon is overrun on an outpost and he plays dead while the screaming Chinese Fourth Field Army trots by. On the 23rd of the May Massacre clipped by a sniper, much more misery and home to brood over bloody scenes. Locating a few fellow survivors, inspired to put it all down, YOU...
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Table of Contents:
• Introduction
• The GARRYOWEN
• The Author
• Legacy of the 7th Cavalry
• Genera George A Custer
• From the Commanders
• The Commanders
• ADVANCE TO THE REAR
• COUNTERATTACK
• CHINESE SPRING OFFENSIVE
• IRON TRIANGLE
• Campaigns
• Medal of Honor
• Charts
• Extracts
• Esprit de Corps to the GARRYOWEN
• OCCUPATION DUTY IK Chapter II JOURNEY INTO WAR
• PUSAN PERIMETER
• THE BREAKOUT
• CROSSING...
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William Stueck is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of several books, including The Korean War: An International History (Princeton).
Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into...
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The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists and the first war we didn't win. We've not had a win since 1945. Today, nuclear tensions between North Korea and the United States have heightened the uncertainty of lives in America, the Pacific Rim and throughout the world.
I designed the mural wall at the Korean Veterans Memorial on the Mall...
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The first year of the Korean War was a tumultuous series of epic battles, ending in a legendary and harrowing retreat. In the summer of 1950, British and Australian troops were dispatched to fight with UN forces in the savage struggle against communism in Korea. After both triumph and tragedy while breaking out of the "Pusan Perimeter," 27th Brigade – the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex battalions, soon joined by the Royal Australians...
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The memoir, A Warrior's Odyssey: A Life Transformed, is about my life altered by military service--how the U.S. Army changed me from a confused and frightened a 19-year old Mexican American into a commissioned officer and a confident citizen.
With the response of the United States to North Korea's sudden invasion of the South in 1950, I was among the many thousands of young men about to be taken into military service. Rather than being drafted, I...
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William Stueck is Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Among his works is The Road to Confrontation: American Policy toward China and Korea, 1947-1950.
This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed...
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